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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
Artist
Composer
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Film Director
Musician
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Peace Activist
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City of Tokyo
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I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.
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When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.
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Life with another person is always difficult.
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I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.
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Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.
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I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.
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Our thoughts determine our age.
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The opposite of love is fear, not hate.
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Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.
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Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us. And the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.
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I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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